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What would you call a musical group that takes modern pop and rock songs, “retrofies” and reimagines them as everything from 1920s jazz to 1950s do-wop, shoots low-budget videos of themselves performing the songs in a living room, and then garners millions of views when the...

Love is in the air, and perhaps also on your TV screen. Of course, the word love is subjective, as is the love story depicted in the new Amazon original series, “Z: The Beginning of Everything.” Recounting the saga of one of the literary world’s most well-known love stories, “Z”...

The California Coastal Commission this week unanimously approved an application for the expansion of Balboa Marina, construction of a public dock component and a new restaurant. The project, located at 201 East Coast Hwy., includes both landside and waterside development. The...

Harbor Commissioners discussed and decided on their final revisions for mooring permits during a meeting this week and will forward their recommendations to the Newport Beach City Council. The hot topic items were the transfer fee and an online centralized listing of moorings...

The California Coastal Commission voted 7-1 Thursday to adopt the commission staff’s revised findings to support the denial of Newport Banning Ranch LLC’s permit for a controversial mixed-use project. Mark Vargas was the lone dissenting vote and Roberto Uranga was not permitted...

As the popularity for Stand Up Paddle Boarding grows, so does the concern for safety of all users in Newport Harbor. Newport Beach Harbor Commission recently created an ad hoc committee to study the issue and an update was provided during a meeting Wednesday. The committee...

Newport Beach Councilman Scott Peotter’s opinion is clear in his Jan. 27 newsletter: “I think Newport Beach ought to oppose the sanctuary city movement. What do you think?” The email newsletter was sent just two days after President Donald Trump signed an executive order to deny...

Charles “Chip” Donnelly, a local sailing expert and longtime Newport Harbor advocate, died Feb. 1. He was 55. “We all knew him to be a true waterman and an advocate for everything that had anything to do with Newport Harbor,” said Harbor Commissioner Doug West, as the commission...

The Irvine Company dropped their lawsuit against Related California on Feb. 3, according to court records. The lawsuit, filed Dec. 9 in Orange County Superior Court, claimed supporters of the project trespassed at several of the Newport Beach shopping centers located on Irvine...

The scenic three mile stretch of boardwalk between E. Street to 36th Street on Balboa Peninsula is beloved by pedestrians, but cyclists like it too. The hotly contested issue of bike traffic on the boardwalk has local residents fired up. “This is something that everyone cares...